“There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.”

“… a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.”

“Strength enough to build a home,
Time enough to hold a child,
Love enough to break a heart”

“The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill;
perfect woman, nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort, and command.”

“What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?”

“If the question of the distribution of wealth were solved for all society and all lived in average comfort and without urgent anxiety, the question would still be how many would be at peace with their own souls and have that enduring joy and contentment which alone can make the outward things fair and sweet and rise victorious over change.”

“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”

“Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.”

“I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.”

“What is the worth of any thing,
But for the happiness 'twill bring?”